The man was pulled after being trapped for 118 hours without food or water.
Thirty-eight people remain unaccounted for.
Western Cape Disaster Management chief, Colin Deiner:"We started going into the side because the strategy was to clear every floor. We lifted the different floors and we got to quite a solid area. So, over the last two nights, these floors were lifted. At three, we decided to look from the side where the side broke."
Deiner added that the man was responsive and he had been transported to the nearby hospital for treatment. "He told us he had some weight on his legs, so we were very scared that if we release him too quickly, so we got surgeons in to make sure they work against that and then we broke, we found another hole closer to him, we broke the hole open, cut the rebar out and when we accessed him, we thought it might, because normally what you get is a lot of steel all over the show but, fortunately, that wasn't the case and we probably got him out two hours quicker than we thought.
Our survivor has been successfully extracted from the debris after more than 116 hours. This is nothing short of a miracle - thank you to all the search and rescue teams! 🥺🙏✨
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